Beita Beach.

The rat spirits sent out by the young master... oh no, the dike-destroying commandos, only to find that digging a hole is not an easy task.

After digging up the softened surface ground, the soil underneath became hard.

With each scoop, one could only shovel up a palm-sized piece of soil, just like using a plane to plan wood.

"Damn it, there's no bottom no matter how hard we dig." The soldiers dug for a while, but they only dug out the poured foundation.

With a snap, the wooden handle of a hoe broke off...

These people were already at the end of their strength, and when they realized that they couldn't see the edge of the foundation after digging three feet into the ground, they were completely discouraged.

"These old perverts from Kunshan are digging such a deep foundation. How can they finish it in a month?"

"This ground seems to have been tamped..."

"I can see that this levee must have been built by the heavenly soldiers and generals."

The soldiers dropped their tools, sat down on the embankment in despair, and stared blankly at their blistered hands. No matter how Captain Wu drove them, they no longer acted like fools.

"If you want to dig, do it yourself. We can't do it anymore..." They were not just venting their anger. They really had no strength left.

"Get up, everyone!" Captain Wu had also run out of patience and started punching and kicking his men. "I went through so much trouble to come here, and all I did was dig a hole? How am I going to explain this when I get back?"

"It's all your fault! If you hadn't taken this crappy job, nothing would have happened, right?" The soldiers held their heads, each with a look of resentment on their face.

"That's right, you wanted to lick the young master, but you made us suffer this great crime! And you still have the nerve to beat and scold us? You should apologize!"

"Are you going to rebel?!" Captain Wu was so angry that he drew his sword and swung it hard.

"Whoever refuses to obey, please stand up and I will chop him off!"

Who would have thought that as soon as these words were spoken, more than a dozen soldiers stood up.

It was raining so heavily and the atmosphere was very unharmonious.

Seeing the soldiers who usually competed to please him, now with fierce eyes, Captain Wu finally became a little panicked.

While waving the dagger, he growled fiercely, "Don't mess around, think about the consequences!"

"Aren't you going to chop us to pieces? What else is there to consider?!" The soldiers gathered around, rubbing their hands.

"Who dares to touch me?"

"Let's give it a try!" Several soldiers swung their hammers at the same time.

Captain Wu hurriedly raised his sword to block, but was hit on the wrist. He cried out in pain, hugged his arm, and dropped the sword to the ground.

The soldiers who had lost their rationality rushed forward and started beating and kicking him, venting all the negative emotions that the dike had given them on Captain Wu.

By the time they stopped, Captain Wu had been beaten beyond recognition.

"What should we do when we go back?" After calming down, the soldiers began to feel a little scared.

Military law is no joke. Disobeying orders and beating superiors are enough to make them suffer, not to mention the wrath of the young master.

"Let's just go all the way!" Several leading soldiers took a look at the coffin-sized pit.

"Bury him, so that there will be no evidence against him!" The soldiers looked fiercely and looked at the deputy captain who was hiding aside.

It was obvious that if they had a disagreement, he would be buried with her.

"Let's say he accidentally fell into the water and was washed away by the Wusong River." The deputy captain had no choice but to whisper:

"This way we have a reason to go back... Without our leader, what else can we do?"

"Okay, that's it!"

The soldiers hurriedly lifted up the unconscious Wu Baihu and threw him into the pit. When they were about to shovel dirt to bury him, they suddenly heard a loud shout from above their heads:

"Don't move!"

The soldiers looked up in confusion, only to find that they had been surrounded without them knowing when.

Countless Kunshan County militiamen stood on the stone embankment, earth embankment, and the lattice embankments on both sides, holding machetes and harpoons, and some held stones, glaring down at them.

The leader was an official from Kunshan County. He was thin, had a dark complexion, and a ferocious look, as if he was going to eat someone.

"Put down your weapons and climb up one by one. Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"

The morale of the dike-destroying team had long been broken, and they were so exhausted that they had no will to resist. They followed the orders of the black-faced official and climbed up the dike one by one, but were kicked to the ground and tied up by the angry militiamen.

Only then did they discover that the scouts who were sent to the west to keep watch had already enjoyed this treatment before them.

Under the dike, only Wu Baihu was left lying motionless in the pit.

"Is that our Kunshan hero?" The black-faced official quickly ordered people to carry him onto the embankment. Looking at the man's bruised and swollen face, he became furious and kicked a soldier in the chest.

"Why are you so cruel?!"

"Beat them to death, beat them to death!" The militiamen were also filled with righteous indignation and started punching and kicking.

"He is not from your Kunshan, he is our leader..." In line with the spirit of "a friend's death would rather die than let me die", the soldiers sold Wu Baihu without hesitation.

"What?" The black-faced official was Xiong Dianshi. After the second phase of the project began, he was still responsible for organizing and protecting the transportation.

When the typhoon came and the ships returned to the port, he had nothing to do, so he took the initiative to lead people to inspect this section of the river embankment, which had special meaning to him.

He had been doing law enforcement and catching thieves for eight or nine years, so he had trained his eyes to be sharp. He asked someone to bring a water bag to rinse the man. He saw that he was dressed the same as the dike diggers and was wearing expensive leather boots, so he was obviously the leader of this gang.

"Then why do you want to kill him?" Xiong Dianshi asked puzzledly.

"He forced us to dig the embankment on such a severe typhoon day. We couldn't dig it, but he still insisted on doing it..." the soldiers replied aggrievedly.

"In fact, it's mainly because we are kind-hearted. We think it's inhumane to dig up the dike that your county has built with great difficulty." The deputy captain quickly took over the conversation and shifted the blame to protect himself.

"We had a conflict with him, and then this happened... Sir, we were just following orders. We didn't know anything before we got here!"

"Hmph, stop using sweet words here." Xiong Dianshi snorted coldly and went down to the levee to take a look himself. He saw that the newly built levee was full of potholes due to the smashing of these people. It looked horrible.

Take another look at the coffin-sized pit next to the embankment, it is almost dug to the bottom of the embankment.

This broke Xiong Dianshi's heart, as he loved Dadi more than his life. He went up to Dadi with a dark face and beat and kicked the group of soldiers fiercely.

"I told you to lie! I told you to lie! Are you feeling guilty? The levee is too strong and you can't dig it up, okay?!"

Captain Wu had already woken up, but seeing this, he quickly closed his eyes and continued to pretend to be unconscious.

Unfortunately, pretending to be unconscious was useless. When the militiamen heard that none of them were good people, they immediately rushed forward and beat up the dike diggers, even sparing Wu Baihu who seemed to be unconscious.

On the stone embankment, curses, the sounds of fists and kicks, screams, and pleas for mercy filled the air in the heavy rain.

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